{"id":66445,"date":"2012-07-08T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T20:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66445"},"modified":"2012-07-08T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T20:45:10","slug":"shark-attacks-kayak-near-pleasure-point-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=66445","title":{"rendered":"Shark attacks kayak near Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">PLEASURE POINT &#8211; A great white shark, estimated to be up to 18 feet long, sheared through the front end of a kayak floating about a quarter-mile from the popular Eastside surf spot known as Pleasure Point, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The attack, which happened about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, is a rare occurrence for the area as no one has reported a shark bite in several decades in the waters around Santa Cruz County, according to Sean Van Sommeran of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Saturday, a 52-year-old Fremont man was fishing from\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_21024751\/shark-sighting-reported-off-pleasure-point\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLEASURE POINT &#8211; A great white shark, estimated to be up to 18 feet long, sheared through the front end of a kayak floating about a quarter-mile from the popular Eastside surf spot known as Pleasure Point, authorities said. The attack, which happened about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, is a rare occurrence for the area as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66446,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445\/revisions\/66446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}